Distortions
of loveand
the blind of belief.Scarcely
understandingthat
we're living with a thief.

Duty
demanding another great feat.Thoughtforms
arising that duly defeatall
the efforts to love and be lovedby
an other for real.

Families
commanding a better lifestyle.Using
the power of whim and of wile.Insisting
they are innocent.Concealing
their murderous intent.

Users
and abusers that expandupon
the tale. History repeatingin
the larger outside world.As
consistently, the imagesare
screened without the meansof
better sense. It's all aboutthe
dollars and the cents.

So
our parents were taught,and
now so we are bound.The
negatives not givenany
chance to turn around.

Desperate
oaths sworn on an altar.Separate
lives that shiver, falteron
the brink of distant chasmswaiting
to break in. They nevereven
tried to make amends.

It's
such a modern day,they
use it up and thenthey
throw it all away.Not
noticing the differencethat
the piles of garbage make.Not
even when the garbagestarts
to ooze back out of them.

Denial,
coded words for all their lies.Pretending
that they never knew the wise.Outdistancing
the others as they hideunder
their covers of supposed decency.Looking
up, they aim to please.While
looking in, they find only disease.

Down
and out. Depressed and medicated.Pondering
the problems of their aging.Searching
for the meaning.Finding
only emptiness.God
bless us all,America's
a mess...